The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born

The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond is a 2019 nonfiction book by American author Nancy Fraser, published by Verso Books.

The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond
AuthorNancy Fraser
LanguageEnglish
Published2019
PublisherVerso Books
ISBN9781788732727
WebsiteVerso website

The book casts the contemporary political landscape as not just an economic system, but economics wedded to authority, the result of a "worldview ... that wedded a progressive politics of recognition with a neoliberal political economy".[1] It provides an "assessment of hegemonic and counterhegemonic blocs",[2] and provides arguments and evidence that challenge the "assumption that expertise is inseparable from objectivity".[3] According to the work, 21st-century authoritarianism in America "is borne from fractured nexus of distribution and recognition on which the authority of the established political classes and political parties has been built".[4] According to the author, the election of Donald Trump as United States President in 2016 indicates the end of the "'progressive-neoliberal' hegemonic order".[1]

The title is a quote of Antonio Gramsci,[5] and refers to his theory of cultural hegemony.[1]

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  1. ^ a b c Rollmann 2019.
  2. ^ Saas 2019.
  3. ^ Saltman 2021.
  4. ^ MacLeavy 2019.
  5. ^ "Antonio Gramsci 1891–1937, Italian political theorist and activist", Oxford Reference, Oxford University Press, retrieved May 15, 2023, The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear. – in 1930, Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1971)

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